Semantic Mapping

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Semantic mapping links observations or data fields to meaningful concepts, categories, entities, and relations so machines can reason beyond raw measurements. In robotics, systems combine SLAM and RGB-D geometry with object instances, scene graphs, voxel maps, and open-vocabulary features from CLIP or vision-language models; persistent fusion and active exploration support querying and navigation. For structured data, ontology and schema matching uses language-model embeddings, graph and instance evidence, constraints, retrieval, and human review to align concepts across sources. Current work is moving from static labels toward open-set, temporal, uncertainty-aware maps, while reliability under viewpoint or domain shifts, changing scenes, memory limits, and ambiguous mappings remains a central challenge.

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  1. Point-Level Refinable Semantic Mapping for Spatial Understanding

    Oct 22, 2026Taimeng Fu, Yi Du, Zitong Zhan +43D Semantic MappingSemantic Mapping

    Spatial AI & Robotics Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, USA.

  2. RecallGS: Geometry-Grounded Recall for Online Semantic Gaussian Splatting

    Oct 22, 2026Thanh-Khoi Nguyen, Thien-Phuc Tran, Minh-Triet TranOpen-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation3DGS Segmentation

    University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Viet Nam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  3. OASIS: Online Anchor-centric Scene Inference System for Open-Vocabulary Retrieval and Navigation in Dynamic Environments

    Oct 22, 2026Kaiyao Liao, Qingfeng Li, Chen Chen +3Indoor Robot NavigationSemantic Mapping

    Beihang University, Beijing, China · Hangzhou Innovation Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

  4. AOV-GS: Active Open-Vocabulary Semantic Mapping with 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Oct 21, 2026Rodion Shkokov, Tatiana Zemskova, Dmitry YudinSemantic MappingOpen-Vocabulary Semantic Mapping

    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Dolgoprudny, Russia · AIRI, Moscow, Russia

  5. Behave Like Experts: Fusing Data with Semantic Knowledge for Effective and Efficient Semantic Map Construction

    Oct 18, 2026Zhu Liu, Zhen Hu, Yuxuan Liu +1Semantic Mapping

    Shanghai University · Tsinghua University

  6. Mobility-Budget-Constrained Submodular Maximization for Distributed Semantic Multi-Robot Exploration

    Oct 13, 2026Changxuan Yao, Sandilya Sai Garimella, Lu Gan +1Multi-Robot ExplorationInformative Path Planning

    The authors are with the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.

  7. Correspondences as Decisions: JevNexus for Decision-Centric Schema Matching

    Oct 7, 2026Runze Li, Hanchen Wang, Ying Zhang +1Semantic MappingLLM Reranking

    University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia · University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia

  8. Small Language Models for Smart Data Model Classification at the Edge: A Cost-Aware Hybrid Approach

    Oct 5, 2026Cristian Martella, Angelo Martella, Antonella Longo +1Small Language ModelsSemantic Mapping

    Dept. of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Via Per Monteroni, Lecce, 73100, Italy

  9. How Causality Bridges the Semantic Gap

    Oct 1, 2026Shuhao Zhang, Xuran Zhou, Han Guo +2Semantic MappingCausal Structure Learning

    University of California, San Diego · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  10. Multi-Scale Semantic Mapping in Urban Environments via Observation Calibration and Policy Dependence Regularization

    Sep 28, 2026Runling Long, Junhao Feng, Jia WanSemantic Mapping

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

  11. ExcavaTwin: Training-Free Geometry-Guided Semantic Elevation Mapping for Autonomous Excavation

    Sep 28, 2026Yu Deng, Lingshan Zeng, Tong Hu +1Multi-View Feature FusionRobotic Excavation

    The Smart Manufacturing Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology. · Capstone Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China.

  12. CRASM-Gate: Deterministic-First Constraint- and Role-Aware Semantic Mapping with Selective Model Assistance Across Heterogeneous Industrial Standards

    Sep 25, 2026Kabeh Mohsenzadegan, Vahid Tavakkoli, Kyandoghere KyamakyaSemantic MappingSelective Prediction

    Institue of Smart System Technologies, University of Klagenfurt, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria · Faculté Polytechnique, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

  13. Assessing the Impact of Fleet Size on Crowdsourced Mapping Using a Dissimilarity Measure

    Sep 24, 2026Marie-Ngoïe Badibanga Kalenda, Philippe Bonnifait, Marie-Anne MittetHD Map ConstructionSemantic Mapping

    Heudiasyc · Renault, Guyancourt, France

  14. SparseNav: Instruction-conditioned Sparse Semantic Perception for Training-Free Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 22, 2026Quanhua Chen, Juhan Kang, Runfeng Lin +5Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  15. Semantic SLAM in Precision Agriculture using Bayesian Inference

    Sep 17, 2026Ruben Beumer, Sander Doodeman, René van de Molengraft +1Simultaneous Localization and MappingSemantic Mapping

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  16. PerSeM: Persistent Semantic Memory for Long-Horizon Open-Vocabulary UAV Mapping

    Sep 17, 2026Saurbh Singh Jamwal, Ganesh RamakrishnanSemantic MappingOpen-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  17. Semantic-ITC: A Frame-wise Indoor Mobile Laser Scanning Dataset and Benchmark for Semantic Segmentation

    Sep 16, 2026Haiyang Wu, Muhammad Affan, George Vosselman +13D Semantic Segmentation3D Point Cloud Segmentation

    Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, 7522 NB, The Netherlands

  18. P-POSEMEM: Projective Semantic Memory for Consistent Language Grounding under Pose-Graph Rewrites

    Sep 14, 2026Ha Sier, Ali Salmasi, Mengya Xu +5Vision-Language GroundingGraph-Based Agent Memory

    Turku Intelligent Embedded and Robotic Systems (TIERS) Lab, University of Turku, Turku, Finland · School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  19. HydroMap: Probabilistic Water Surface Elevation Mapping for Semantic Scene Representation in Inland Waterways

    Sep 14, 2026Zhongbi Luo, Yunjia Wang, Herman Bruyninckx +1Semantic MappingUnmanned Surface Vehicle

    Division of Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium · Division of Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI), Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, 8200 Bruges, Belgium · Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU Eindhoven, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  20. Surprising Effectiveness of Self-Demonstrations in Enhancing Schema-Ontology Mapping with LLMs

    Sep 12, 2026Siddhesh Thombre, Manasi Patwardhan, Sunita SarawagiSemantic Mapping

    TCS Research · IIT Bombay

  21. EviMap: Evidence-Grounded Hierarchical Topic Maps for Exploring Unlabeled Corpora

    Sep 6, 2026Zhiyin Tan, Changxu DuanSemantic MappingTopic Modeling

    L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover Hannover, Germany · Technische Universität Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany

  22. A hybrid pipeline for dynamic ontology-based semantic mapping

    Sep 3, 2026Konstantinos Dimitropoulos, Ioannis HatzilygeroudisSemantic Mapping

    Computer Engineering and Informatics Department University of Patras, Greece

  23. MS-MEM: Multi-Skill Manipulation-Enhanced Mapping via Uncertainty- and Disturbance-Aware Action Selection

    Sep 2, 2026Yitian Shi, Jesper Mücke, Nils Dengler +3Robotic Object PushingSemantic Mapping

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · University of Bonn, Germany · Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany +1

  24. TaxCE : A Framework for Automated Taxonomy Construction and Evaluation at Scale

    Aug 31, 2026Sandeep Sricharan Mukku, Albert Aristotle Nanda, Rohit PyatiTopic ModelingSemantic Mapping

    Amazon

  25. Constraint-Guided Enterprise Data Mapping with Large Language Models

    Aug 25, 2026Sebastian Monka, Pramod Anantharam, Thien Vo Minh +1Entity ResolutionSemantic Mapping

    Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Renningen, Germany · Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, USA · Robert Bosch GmbH, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  26. Concept-Guided Exploration: Building Persistent, Actionable Scene Graphs

    Aug 24, 2026Noé Zapata, Gerardo Pérez, Alejandro Torrejón +23D SGGSemantic Mapping

    RoboLab, Robotics and Artificial Vision, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain

  27. SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation

    Aug 24, 2026Shibo Zhao, Guofei Chen, Honghao Zhu +7Open-Vocabulary Semantic MappingSemantic Mapping

    The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  28. SIDScope: A Diagnostic Resource for Semantic-ID Interfaces in Generative Recommendation

    Aug 19, 2026Jiandong Ding, Huijie Qin, Tiandeng Wu +1Semantic ID RecommendationSemantic Mapping

    Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

  29. SAP-Nav: Spatial Semantic Representation Meets Active Perception for Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation

    Aug 13, 2026Xuetong Pei, Jian Liu, Vidura Munasinghe +4Active PerceptionEmbodied Navigation

    1Beihang University · 2Singapore University of Technology and Design · 3AIML, Adelaide University

  30. LifelongCrossNav: Persistent 3D Semantic Memory for Cross-Floor Multi-Object Navigation

    Aug 7, 2026Zehui Li, Zihao Sun, Jiawei Xu +6Embodied NavigationRobot Navigation

    Peking University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence